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The color cyan, a greenish-blue, has notable tints and shades. It is one of the subtractive primary colors along with magenta, and yellow. The first recorded use of cyan blue as a color name was in 1879 ("cyan blue" being the name used for "cyan" in the 19th century).
Teal is a greenish-blue color. Its name comes from that of a bird—the Eurasian teal ( Anas crecca )—which presents a similarly colored stripe on its head. The word is often used colloquially to refer to shades of cyan in general.
Blue-green Color coordinates; Hex triplet #008080: sRGB B (r, g, b) (0, 128, 128) HSV (h, s, v) (180°, 100%, 50%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (48, 38, 192°) Source: RGB/HTML color model: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Cyan (/ ˈ s aɪ. ə n,-æ n /) is the color between blue and green on the visible spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a predominant wavelength between 500 and 520 nm, between the wavelengths of green and blue.
The pigment is a greenish-blue colour. In watercolour, it has a slight chalkiness. When used in oil paint, it loses this quality. Today, cobalt chromate is sometimes marketed under the cerulean blue name but is darker and greener than the cobalt stannate version.
Cyan is any of the colors in the blue-green range of the visible spectrum, i.e., between approximately 490 and 520 nm. It is considered one of the main subtractive primary colors. Cyan is sometimes considered green or blue because of the way it appears.
Green-blue Color coordinates; Hex triplet #1164B4: sRGB B (r, g, b) (17, 100, 180) HSV (h, s, v) (209°, 91%, 71%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (42, 76, 252°) Source: Crayola: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Strong blue: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
For all three, different shades can be indicated with different (compound) terms, none of them being considered as basic color terms: "bleu clair" (light blue), "bleu ciel" (sky blue), "bleu marine" (Navy blue), "bleu roi" (royal blue); "vert clair" (light green), "vert pomme" (literally: apple green); "gris anthracite" (deep gray), "gris ...
Turquoise blue Color coordinates; Hex triplet #00FFEF: sRGB B (r, g, b) (0, 255, 239) HSV (h, s, v) (176°, 100%, 100%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (91, 72, 182°) Source: Maerz and Paul: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Brilliant bluish green: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Viridian is a blue-green pigment, a hydrated chromium(III) oxide, of medium saturation and relatively dark in value. It is composed of a majority of green, followed by blue. The first recorded use of viridian as a color name in English was in the 1860s. Viridian takes its name from the Latin viridis, meaning "green".
